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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Already
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Taken
Impartial
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